Tokyo Ghost Diary

The sunset dyed half of the sky an ambiguous red-purple color.

The location of Hoshino's apartment in Koto District is absolutely prime. Leaving the apartment building is the downtown area, and various shopping malls and supermarkets can be reached just around the corner.

One round trip, even including the shopping in the supermarket, took less than half an hour to complete. When he returned home again, Hoshino Rin carried large and small bags and got into the kitchen with high spirits and started working.

Gen Hoshino did not go back to the room this time. Instead, he went to the living room to turn on the TV and game console, sat on the sofa and clicked on "Ruby Land".

If Hoshino Gen was most satisfied with the scenery and food during this trip to Zermatt, then he felt that his biggest gain, apart from the pollution that weakened his body the moment Jerome dissipated, was this Game over.

The game developers have no faults. The gameplay and picture precision have perfectly reached the promised standards. At least Gen Hoshino is willing to spend time on it and does not feel that it is a waste of time.

The living room soon reverberated with the exciting game sound effects and pleasant BGM, but before a while, these sounds were all suppressed by the violent movement in the kitchen.

Listening to the sound, it seemed that oil and water at high temperatures were reacting violently after contact, but Gen Hoshino could vaguely hear the cheap cry of pain from the cheap sister, who might have been burned.

Gen Hoshino's eyebrows jumped, but he was leveling up. He still had a few hundred experience points to reach level 15 before he could find a boost room. After thinking about it, he decided to trust Hoshino Rin and continued to play the game where he was.

So, forty minutes later...

At the dining table, Hoshino Yuan folded his hands and supported his chin, with an expressionless face, while Hoshino Rin sat opposite him, with his head slightly lowered, his mouth pouted, and a band-aid wrapped on his index finger, looking aggrieved. Small appearance.

The direct cause of the current scene was the slightly burnt, steaming... meat dishes placed on the table between the two of them.

"What is this?" Hoshino Yuan asked sincerely and curiously. In his previous life, he traveled around with the old Taoist priests. He dared not say anything else, but his knowledge of Chinese cuisine is absolutely sufficient. But even so, he I didn’t even recognize what Hoshino Rin made.

Hoshino Rin raised his little face, puffed out his cheeks, and then said quietly and without confidence: "Red...braised pork."

"..." Hoshino Yuan was silent.

Hoshino Rin is self-aware. She explained in a low voice: "It was not like this when I was studying with Aunt Dobet. I don't know why, but when Aunt Dobet taught me, this stew didn't last for two hours. Any problem, when I make it myself, it becomes dark and burnt within thirty minutes of stewing.”

"It was the same when frying candy. When Aunt Dobbett was guiding me, the rock candy cubes were very obedient. But when I made them myself, for some reason, they reacted so violently that I was so scared that I thought they were going to explode... "

After saying that, she looked at Hoshino Rin cautiously: "I'm sorry, brother."

Hoshino Gen picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. It wasn't that unpalatable, but the meat was hard, a little sticky, and a little bitter.

He took out a tissue, spit out the food, wrapped it and threw it into the trash can. Gen Hoshino sighed and took out his phone and said, "I've ordered the food. Do you have anything you want to eat?"

"Hmm...just a vegetable salad." Because he proudly said that he wanted to show his hand to his brother, but the result was completely messed up. In the end, his brother called to order the meal himself...so that now Hoshino Rinren and Hoshino Yuan's confidence in speaking was gone, and his voice was pitifully small.

Gen Hoshino didn't care. He got up from the dining table and called to place an order while going back to the living room to continue playing games. During this period, Rin Hoshino was alone in the kitchen cleaning up the mess he had made on the stove.

Half an hour later, dinner came to the door. Hoshino Rin was in a low mood and didn't say much during the meal. And if she didn't speak, Hoshino Gen wouldn't take the initiative to speak, so the atmosphere at today's dinner was particularly quiet.

After the meal, Hoshino Gen continued to play the game. This game is quite addictive. Hoshino Rin did not clamor to play with Hoshino Gen today, uncharacteristically. She just stayed on the sofa and looked at her phone, while looking up from time to time to check on her brother's progress.

Normally, whenever Hoshino Rin is around, the air around him will be filled with her chirping voice. Today it suddenly became quiet, and Hoshino Gen really couldn't adapt to it.

So during the game break when he finally passed through the maze area and found the first boost room, Gen Hoshino glanced at the sofa where Rin Hoshino was sitting.

Then he was surprised to find that the girl was actually wiping her tears there - Gen Hoshino was immediately shocked. He was crying just because a meal was not cooked? Although he knows that his cheap sister has been a crybaby since she was a child, but that shouldn't be the case, right?

Sensing Hoshino Gen's gaze, Hoshino Rin raised her head and looked at her brother. Seeing Hoshino Gen's strange face, she said pitifully: "Brother... the news of Mari Na-chan's death has been announced."

Hoshino Gen suddenly understood, then turned around and continued playing his own game.

About twenty minutes later, Hoshino Gen's cell phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that the caller was Asara Mingxiang.

After answering the phone, Asara Naika's voice came from the other side: "Good evening. I heard that you have returned to Tokyo, right?"

"Well, I just arrived. Is there anything wrong?" Gen Hoshino was not surprised that the special task force would know about his return to Tokyo so quickly. In fact, he even suspected that they knew about it before the plane he was on landed.

"Well, here's the thing. After you razed the Nagano Nana Ghost School to the ground, our staff have been cleaning up the scene. Just a few days ago, we found a load-bearing object under the rubble. This should be yours. The ghosts we hunted dropped, but because you were not here before, we kept them temporarily, but now that you are back, I think it would be better to hand it over to you."

"...Oh." Gen Hoshino recalled that when he dispersed the hanging ghost at Nagano Nai Ghost School, he really didn't have time to pick up its carrying object...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at Hoshino Rin, who had red eyes and lowered his head while still scrolling through his phone.

When someone with whom you have a close relationship dies...it feels really uncomfortable.

Hoshino Gen sighed, and after a moment of hesitation, he said to Hoshino Rin: "Do you want to see her?"

Hoshino Rin subconsciously raised her head and saw her brother looking at her. She couldn't help but blinked in confusion: "What?"

"Do you want to see Mariina?" Gen Hoshino asked again.

"...!!" Hoshino Rin opened his eyes wide after realizing what his brother was saying: "But hasn't Marina-chan turned into a ghost..."

Hoshino Gen shook his head, and then said to Asara Mingxiang on the other end of the phone: "Miss Asara, the ghost school's carrying object belongs to you, and then return the comb I gave you before, how about it?"